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THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery

The Next Big Idea

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Finding Your Voice

The core of writing, the moment you find yourself as a writer is when you find your voice. There's no good writer in the world who doesn't have an immediately distinctive voice on the page that we recognize the moment we open the book. Every essay I write with one simple monosyllabic sentence because it lands the whole thing which can be very elaborate and broken,. multi-syllabic. It's like a drop shot in tennis, right? You just a booth. That tension and dialogue between the pursuit of perfection and the deliberate introduction of artful imperfection, that's what makes craft into art.

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